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The Rational Reminder Podcast · 2025-04-03 · 55 min · 10,538 words

Episode 351 – DFA vs Vanguard

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This is the Rational Reminder Podcast, a weekly reality check on sensible investing and financial decision making from two Canadians. We're hosted by me, Benjamin Felix, Chief Investment Officer at PWL Capital, and Dan Bortellotti, Portfolio Manager at PWL Capital. Just the two of us today, Ben. Yeah. A fairly rare occurrence in recent history. But we have done this before once.

In your early days. Looking forward to doing it again. It's a good topic. I think it's a good topic for you and I to do together. As well. I think so.

As we kinda highlighted in the recent AMA discussion. Yeah, it's something that both you and I have probably come to this question from two different ways and it'll be interesting to talk about the ways those intersect. So that main topic is DFA versus Vanguard, which we'll jump into in a second. In the after show we have

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